PTSD awareness: it’s a shitty thing to have to live with. It’s even more crappy to have to deal with peoples misconceptions of what PTSD actually is.
Continue reading “PTSD awareness – todays fact”Tag: trauma
Training week 2: um, that didn’t quite go to plan!
After finding that the actual plan last week was a bit much, I had a revised plan in mind for this weeks training. Now it was going to plan.. till something else came along and sunk my ship.
Continue reading “Training week 2: um, that didn’t quite go to plan!”#266 What PTSD really looks like
PTSD is something everyone claims they know about but I doubt many really understand. And I mean TRULY understand.
Continue reading “#266 What PTSD really looks like”The things I don’t talk about
I do my best to give public snippets of reality, but lets face it, online is very different to knowing me in person. So I thought I would address a few of the things I do not regularly talk about online.
Continue reading “The things I don’t talk about”Poem: Finding me amongst the mayhem
Self identity, what does it mean?
Taken for granted, pre-assumed
Until your major beliefs are destroyed
Leaving you in a barren battlefield.
Like being airdropped into a strange town.
Take time to look around.
Find the familiar, find the new,
Make a list – what interests you?
A new coffee shop – same familiar taste.
A new dress shop – different but cool.
Familiar roads, don’t know where they go.
We head out anyway, discovering new.
Lipstick we loved – rediscovered again.
Sense of self worth, constructed anew
The town we knew is long gone.
New cities we found – even more cool.
New identity – Para is me
New look – confidence is me
New sport – Waka ama is me
New belief system – THIS IS ME!
[poem by Melanie Magowan]